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GNT-0000/FS 00 Qan[T] Full Saber

The RG Qan[T] body gets handed a weapon locker's worth of GN Sword IV, and the whole thing turns into a swappable puzzle box.

MechaGrade Score

3.8/5

00 Qan[T] Full Saber · 1/144 · 2017

GradeRG

Scale1/144

Released2017

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This is a great RG base kit turned into something more interesting by a weapon system that never stops reconfiguring itself.

The 00 Qan[T] body was already one of the more technically ambitious RGs from its era, and strapping the GN Sword IV Full Saber onto its back gives you Full Saber Mode, GN Launcher Mode, three separate GN Gunblades that each flip between blade and gun forms, and a GN Katar mode on top of the usual RG inner-frame articulation. It is not the cleanest RG to build, but it rewards patience with a genuinely different kind of display piece than most 1/144 kits offer.

Best for: RG builders who already know the format and want a Gundam 00 kit that transforms and rearranges instead of just posing

The full review

What it is

This is the Premium Bandai upgrade of the RG 00 Qan[T], and what you're really paying for is the GN Sword IV Full Saber, a backpack-mounted weapon rig that breaks apart into three GN Gunblades plus a central saber unit. Every piece flips between a blade mode and a firearm mode, and they all reattach to the mobile suit's back or hands in different configurations, so you get Full Saber Mode and GN Launcher Mode out of one box of parts. The base 00 Qan[T] body underneath carries the usual RG inner-frame skeleton with an advanced articulation set, ball-jointed head and hips, and rotating skirt armor. Building it feels like solving a small mechanical puzzle every time you switch the weapon between forms.

The catch

The RG Qan[T] frame this kit is built on has a known soft spot: the arms don't use the same inner-frame skeleton as the rest of the body, so they feel stiffer than the buttery hip and torso joints, and the hip articulation on some copies is loose enough that wide stances need a little patience to hold. The kit leans on small foil stickers rather than fully molded color in a few spots, and because the frame parts are semi-clear, those stickers show through and are fiddly to align straight. None of this is unique to the Full Saber release, it's baked into the RG Qan[T] body it's built from, but the weapon system adds its own layer of small, easy-to-lose connector parts on top.

Who it's for

Get this if you've already built at least one or two RG kits and want a Gundam 00 display piece that does something besides stand there looking detailed, the transforming Full Saber system is genuinely satisfying to fiddle with once you learn the sequence. Skip it if you want a first RG or a kit you can breeze through in an evening, the tiny connector parts and foil stickers punish impatience, and the loose hip joints mean you'll want to be deliberate about how you pose it rather than cranking it into an action stance right away.

The build story

What the build is actually like, and the engineering worth knowing about.

The build follows standard RG conventions: small, gate-dense runners, an inner frame you assemble before skinning it in armor, and a part count high enough that you feel every step. The Full Saber add-on multiplies that feeling, since each Gunblade is its own little sub-assembly with a blade mode and a gun mode built into the same set of hinges and slides. None of it is conceptually hard, but it demands the same close attention RG builders already know to bring, especially around the tiny foil stickers that sit under the clear armor panels.

Where the kit earns its keep is the engineering of that weapon system. Being able to reconfigure the Full Saber into Full Saber Mode or GN Launcher Mode, then break individual Gunblades off into katar or rifle form, gives you display options a static weapon loadout never could. Paired with the RG body's ball-jointed hips, 360-degree waist, and multi-axis shoulders, you end up with a kit that can hold dynamic saber-swinging poses most 1/144 releases can't touch, even with the arm stiffness working against it a little.

Lore & trivia

01The GN Sword IV Full Saber originates from Mobile Suit Gundam 00V: Battlefield Record, where it was built by chief mechanic Ian Vashti as a backup stabilization system for the 00 Qan[T]'s experimental Twin Drive, in case the drive proved unstable on its own.
02In the source material, simulation pilot Sherilyn Hyde ran the 00 Qan[T] Full Saber against a massive ELS horde and it wiped them out within a simulated week, demonstrating why the weapon was built even though the standard Twin Drive ended up working fine without it.
03This kit is a Premium Bandai exclusive release from April 2017, sold only through Bandai's online storefront rather than general retail, which is typical for the more elaborate weapon-pack variants of existing RG molds.
04The kit reuses the RG 00 Qan[T] body mold from 2016 and adds the Full Saber weapon system as new, RG-scale tooling rather than resizing the larger MG version's parts.